Lovely! I suppose from the photos the matchboxes could be rebuilt for another lease of life –are there similar projects say printing on other containers

Cheers Patrick

From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Davies
Sent: 15 August 2009 13:25
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Subject: Matchbox digital archive at The Poetry Library

For me the whole thing was about how to get good poetry read by people who don't usually read good poetry, create excitement, be cheap to produce and sell (I sold them for a quid); and yet not be some folded A4 paper. There were about 150 or so of each issue - all sold out now. The limited number of copies made was due completely down to the fact that I was getting sores on my fingers from cutting and folding not due to exclusivity so it's wonderful that Dean Farrow, Chris McCabe et al have archived the editions for anyone who's not read the poems or seen what the boxes looked like. So far the first 6 are up with the final six to come.

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=105

All good, James

James Davies: Editor if p then q
www.ifpthenq.co.uk
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OUT NOW: 

if p then q Text Festival Special Spring 2009 issue 3 (featuring A3 colour posters by Anne Charnock, Craig Dworkin, Geof Huth, P. Inman & Tom Jenks) - http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/magazine.html

FORTHCOMING

Lucy Harvest Clarke - Poetry Collection - Summer 2009

if p then q issue 4 - Caroline Bergvall, Allen Fisher, Richard Makin, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Andrew Shelley, Scott Thurston and more - September 2009

Geof Huth - Poetry Collection - Christmas 2009

PREVIOUSLY:

if p then q spring 2008 issue 1 (Tom Jenks, Ceri Buck, Andrew Shelley, Tony Trehy, James Davies on P. Inman's 4 or 5, A Cd of readings by Ceri Buck and Tom Jenks) -http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/magazine.html

TOM JENKS  - A PRIORI  - http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/books.html or www.amazon.co.uk

JOY AS TIRESOME VANDALISM - aRb (2 volumes) http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/others.html

p.inman - AD FINITUM - http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/books.html or www.amazon.co.uk

if p then q autumn 2008 issue 2 (featuring p.inman, Scott Thurston, Janis Butler Holm, Michael Gibbs, Bill Allen on Michael Gibbs, Tony Trehy meets Robert Grenier, Joy as Tiresome Vandalism (aRb Versions) - http://www.ifpthenq.co.uk/magazine.html

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